Samuel Miller McDonald
Author of Progress, a book on the science and history of progress.
Geographer focusing on human ecology, macrohistory, and theory.
Selected Writing
+ The Left Must Adapt or Die
https://www.thenation.com/article/environment/the-left-warming-planet/
+ Facing Up to the Climate Reckoning Ahead
https://www.thenation.com/article/environment/facing-up-climate-reckoning/
+ Is Nuclear Power Our Best Bet Against Climate Change?
https://bostonreview.net/articles/is-nuclear-power-our-best-bet-against-climate-change/
+ The Green New Deal Can't Be Anything Like the New Deal
https://newrepublic.com/article/153996/green-new-deal-cant-anything-like-new-deal
+ Climate Kings
https://newrepublic.com/article/148861/climate-change-authoritarian-leaders
+ The Last Great Forests
https://www.currentaffairs.org/2021/11/the-last-great-forests
+ The Climate Movement Needs More Creative Tactics
https://newrepublic.com/article/155764/climate-movement-needs-creative-tactics
+ Empire of Same
https://www.currentaffairs.org/2020/08/empire-of-same
+ Oil Age
https://www.currentaffairs.org/2020/03/oil-age
+ Lifecycle of a Leaf
https://www.currentaffairs.org/2019/08/lifecycle-of-a-leaf
+ The City of Tomorrow
https://www.currentaffairs.org/2019/05/the-city-of-tomorrow-is-the-city-of-yesterday
+ Bifröst to Nowhere
https://www.the-trouble.com/content/2018/7/31/bifrst-to-nowhere
+ Carbon Omissions
https://thebaffler.com/latest/climate-omissions-miller-mcdonald
+ Collapse Despair
http://epiloguemag.com/2020/01/collapse-despair/
+ What Must We Do to Live
https://www.the-trouble.com/content/2018/10/14/what-must-we-do-to-live
+ Breaking Development
https://www.currentaffairs.org/2020/02/breaking-development
+ Capitalism is Collectivist
https://www.currentaffairs.org/2018/05/capitalism-is-collectivist
+ The Miracle Pipeline
http://epiloguemag.com/2020/01/the-miracle-pipeline/
+ We can't let the coronavirus lead to a 9/11-style erosion of civil liberties
+ The Ministry for the Future or, Do Authors Dream of Electric Jeeps?
+ How to Destroy a Story
https://www.currentaffairs.org/2021/04/how-to-destroy-a-story
Interviews
+ on the revolutionary potential of good style
https://www.patreon.com/posts/can-love-of-be-w-82708942
+ on the political economy of energy
https://www.acorrectionpodcast.com/phonyeconomy/ezzwfchks78nnjch6l7t8xklbtlhn5
+ on systems change
https://95bfm.com/bcast/systems-change-with-samuel-miller-mcdonald-may-11-2020
+ on fighting climate disaster
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-w6xcg-b6ab88
+ on ecological calamity
Education
+ Doctor of Philosophy—Geography
University of Oxford
+ Master of Environmental Management
Yale University
+ Bachelor of Arts—Human Ecology
College of the Atlantic